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Increase the number of saved logs in Microsoft Backup (NTBackup.exe)

One tiny complaint I do have with the software is the limited number of logs that are saved. By default it’s 10. If you are checking the backup every day, or even once a week, this is fine. You can see what happened each day. If you don’t check the backup logs that often or, as in my case, are not at the location, you could miss potential problems.

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Windows 2008 Backup – Chasing a solution

Until recently 0.0% of my customers had upgrade their servers to Windows 2008…The OS seems powerful overall but left me extremely disappointed in the System Backup…I haven’t spent enough time with the system to give a fully qualified review but I can say that I struggled just getting the system to do a backup of the C drive…I expect you’ll hear more from me about this system (hopefully about how wrong I was), for now I’ll just run through the problems we had. Hopefully it will help someone else in the future.

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Automaticaly Logon A Domain User

There may be cases where you would like a domain user to automatically log in.  For example, I have a few customers who are manufactures.  They have a high turnover of workers that they do not want to have to train on how to work the computer.  They just want it logged in and ready [...]

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How to Change Remote Desktop Listening Port

You can change the Remote Desktop listening port on a computer by editing the following registry entry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\PortNumber
You may want to do this if you have more than one computer on your network that you’d like to allow access to Remote Desktop through the router/firewall.
You’ll need to allow access to the computer via Port Forwarding in [...]

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Using XCOPY for Error-Free Copying

If you’ve ever attempt to copy a large directory tree with many sub-folders and files, you may have had the process fail.  When this happens you are left not knowing where the error may have occured.  Depending on how deep the tree is you are trying to copy, you may or may not be able to [...]

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When Windows profiles are lost…

I’ve run into several occassions where a user’s profile has “disappeared” from their comuputer. When this happens you can be sure that screams of “Where’s my stuff!” usually ensue. Many users have told me that they believed their data to be gone forever.

Fortunately this is not usually the case and it’s fairly easy to recover the profile. This document explains how to do that…

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